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It certainly gives more food for thought. You really can't go wrong with many of these recent DAC's, as long as quality control is also up to the same standard. Judging by the obvious amount of care and attention given to engineering, it would be a waste for quality to control to let down these products. Time will tell.
You could play at 120 dBSPL and still have the noise floor be below threshold of hearing! One minute you are hearing nothing but silence and another, your life comes to an end on those 120 dBSPL peaks!
All have the similar thought D70<>D90.
I agree on the volume knob as a matter of style.
But finally the 2 button option is fine as well even in the day to day use.
Also no risk of failure as some noted in the DX7pro.
I wonder now about the merit of the dacs in 2022 ?
Anyone can teach something on how will jitter be listened as artefact? I always see graphs of lots of spikes in jitter but owned those dacs and I can’t hear a hint of distortion
It depends on how the DAC was implemented in the hardware. Some will have more jitter than others as a result of the clock, components, signal path, power supply mains, etc. Your music will sound a little less transparent and maybe colored. Distortion can be heard when you turn up the volume very loud as the amp begins to distort.
Anyone can teach something on how will jitter be listened as artefact? I always see graphs of lots of spikes in jitter but owned those dacs and I can’t hear a hint of distortion
Well that's kinda what they're doing no? D70s squuezes absolute utmost out of AK4497. D90 series uses AK4499.
The future is uncertain though, what with AKM factory plant that caught fire. So a lot of devices could see redesigns.
Anyone else noticing a drop in Toslink connection quality for a while now? I recall there was a cessation of production of the quality Toshiba connectors, and that most are pretty garbage now.
Also, do we have the 50mV results? This thing looks to be exceptional at low level.
You could play at 120 dBSPL and still have the noise floor be below threshold of hearing! One minute you are hearing nothing but silence and another, your life comes to an end on those 120 dBSPL peaks!
"your life comes to an end on those 120 dBSPL peaks!" Maybe not dead but technically you are deaf at least by the next 2 milliseconds, the "refractory period".
My take is the unit is well engineered although it's a bit pricey compared to others with similar features which don't measure quite as good, but are still better than what we can hear. I'm in the MQA is BS crowd so that feature does not attract me. DAC's are truly a mature product category although some will be crazy enough to buy DAC's costing thousands which don't measure well at all and offer all sorts of strange promises.
Thank you @amirm . My Dx3 pro is still working turning ones and zeroes into music. Topping understands value.